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Grime's Graves Flint Mines
Trip No.10 Entry No.4 Date Added: 12th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grime's Graves Flint Mines submitted by ermine on 7th Apr 2017. Antler picks, Greenwell Pit, Grimes Graves
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Log Text: It's worth bearing in mind that to see much underground you will need to enter the shaft on hands and knees, so dress accordingly. The temperature is about 10C.
The flint was mined from the chalk using red deer antlers that had been naturally shed - the antler material is hardest when just shed.
There are two other pits which have been entered by the public on the site - one which is now closed was the one open to the public in the 1960s and 70s, and the current public access pit, Pit One.
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Grime's Graves Flint Mines
Trip No.10 Entry No.1 Date Added: 12th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grime's Graves Flint Mines submitted by ermine on 7th Apr 2017. One of the radial shafts at Grimes, Graves, Greenwell Pit. Originally the floor would have been covered in flint
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Log Text: English Heritage have opened up a new pit to occasional public access. Greenwell Pit is one of the 433 on the Grimes Graves neolithic flint mine site at Grimes Graves. I was on the first public descent into this pit – it had of course been opened and entered before by archaeologists, but the 6th April was the first time it had been opened to the public.
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Grime's Graves Flint Mines
Trip No.10 Entry No.2 Date Added: 12th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grime's Graves Flint Mines submitted by ermine on 7th Apr 2017. Grazing sheep used to keep the English Heritage site of Grimes Graves clear of trees and brushwood
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Log Text: There’s not much to see above ground at Grimes Graves, this is a mine, after all, so all the action happened underground. The surface is pockmarked by depressions where the backfill has settled, and sheep are used to keep the ground clear.
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Grime's Graves Flint Mines
Trip No.10 Entry No.3 Date Added: 12th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grime's Graves Flint Mines submitted by ermine on 7th Apr 2017. Descent into Greenwell Pit - ladder
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Log Text: Unlike the public access pit this one will generally be via restricted ticketing, the event I was at was a members event. The English Heritage description of the event
thanks to a new winch and harness system we can now access Greenwell’s Pit and see a mining shaft in its original archaeological state.
Join our Neolithic expert Will Lord and discover the history and archaeology of the site before he leads the descent in to the newly opened pit.
This event has been graded as challenging access as the descent in to the pit is by winch and harness only and will require an extended period underground.
made it sound like we were going to abseil into the pit, but although visitors are kitted up with a harness and attached to a winch with a breakaway cable, this is only a safety requirement in case someone slips or has a heart attack underground, entry is quite conventional, down a steel ladder.
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Whitestreet Green
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 26th Oct 2015
Whitestreet Green submitted by ermine on 26th Oct 2015. This stone/boulder is about 1m high on Whitestreet Green, potentiall on the puddingstone trail
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Kersey Puddingstone
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 15th Nov 2005
Kersey Puddingstone submitted by ermine on 15th Nov 2005. This is the overview of where this stone is, half buried in the pavement by the footbridge over the watersplash. It is on the left if you are standing on the bank overlooking the watersplash up the hill towards the church.
Don't miss the other stone which is about 200 metres away on the other side of the road erupting from the pavement near some steps
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St Augustine's Well (Cerne Abbas)
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jan 2005
St Augustine's Well (Cerne Abbas) submitted by ermine on 9th Jan 2005. St Augustine's well in Cerne Abbas is a tranquil place. Walk up Abbey Street and turn into the graveyard - the well is a couple of hundred yards alond the track. The flow is good and was the village's source of drinking water in the last century.
The Abbey nearby is also worth a visit, as well as the nearby Giant hillfigure.
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Kedington Cross
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
Kedington Cross submitted by ermine on 16th Oct 2004. Close-up of the Saxon Cross
St Peter & St Paul, Kedington, Suffolk
TL705470
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Woolpit Cross
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 16th Oct 2004
Woolpit Cross submitted by ermine on 16th Oct 2004. This is described as part of a Saxon cross in the guide to St Mary, Woolpit church.
TL974625
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Iken Saxon Cross
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 12th Oct 2004
Iken Saxon Cross submitted by ermine on 12th Oct 2004. Iken Saxon Cross
Erected c 870-1000, and incorporated into the fabric of St Botolph's church in the 15th century. This Saxon cross shaft remained hidden until the 1977 restoration of the church following an earlier fire.
NGR TM412566
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Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2004
Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire submitted by ermine on 4th Oct 2004. Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire from approx TL580646 looking south-east
Massive Anglian defence that stretched from an area of dense woodland to one of marsh. The dyke is nearly 8 miles long and crosses a chalk ridge. At either end were impassable forests and fens. It was built to defend the East Angles by cutting off the Icknield Way.
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Chalice Well
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2004
Chalice Well submitted by ermine on 4th Oct 2004. If you've missed the opening times of Chalice Well or you just want to sample the water you can get some from this outlet. It is in the lane to the right of the Chalice Well main entrance and is fed from the overflow from the well
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Mutlow Hill
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2004
Mutlow Hill submitted by ermine on 4th Oct 2004. Mutlow Hill, on Fleam Dyke. Looking southeast
The Saxons often used round barrows for secondary burials or, as here, as "mutlows". These were meeting places (mut= meet and low is from hlaw - a sacred mound) At the local mutlow, local matters would be discussed, laws proclaimed and disputes settled. Sometimes punishments or executions would take place and many mutlows retained this last feature and became gallows hills.
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Mutlow Hill
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Essex)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2004
Mutlow Hill submitted by ermine on 4th Oct 2004. Mutlow Hill, on Fleam Dyke. Looking southeast
The Saxons often used round barrows for secondary burials or, as here, as "mutlows". These were meeting places (mut= meet and low is from hlaw - a sacred mound) At the local mutlow, local matters would be discussed, laws proclaimed and disputes settled. Sometimes punishments or executions would take place and many mutlows retained this last feature and became gallows hills.
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Lady Well, Woolpit
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2004
Lady Well, Woolpit submitted by ermine on 4th Oct 2004. The actual site of the well is difficult to find, as it feeds a moat so there is a lot of water about. This brick enclosure is the well itself.
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Thornborough (Bucks)
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Buckinghamshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2004
Thornborough (Bucks) submitted by ermine on 1st Oct 2004. This is Thornborough Bucks, not Yorks - two large Saxon barrows
Thornborough (Bucks)SP732333
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Sutton Hoo
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: England (Suffolk)
Visited: Yes on 30th Sep 2004
Sutton Hoo submitted by ermine on 30th Sep 2004. The Great Gold Buckle
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Toller Porcorum
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2004
Toller Porcorum submitted by ermine on 26th Sep 2004. SY561979, St Andrew & St Peter
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Part of the church wall collapsed a few years back, and two small stones were revealed. These have now been moved to either side of the main gate.
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Menhir de Goulvars
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 8th Aug 2004
Menhir de Goulvars submitted by ermine on 8th Aug 2004. This 4m tall granite menhir stands near the Conguel campsite and the Quiberon aerodrome - it extends another 1m into the ground, according to the information board
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Le Petit Ménec
Date Added: 22nd Jun 2016
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 6th Aug 2004
Le Petit Ménec submitted by ermine on 6th Aug 2004. Confusingly, Petit-Menéc is in fact at the opposite, eastern end of the alignments to le Menéc village at the western end. You need to turn left onto the D186 main road after continuing from Kerlescan. After about 250m turn right into a minor road going past a forest, there is a clearing where you can park after about 400m. The menhirs are in the forest on your right, arranged in a gentle curve. You don't get the same clear overview of the alignments since the view is obscured by the trees, bu...
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